“I will never testify against Trump.” This statement was recently made by Roger Stone, essentially stating that he will not be forced by a rogue and out of control prosecutor to make up lies and stories about “President Trump.” Nice to know that some people still have “guts!”

Mueller’s team is looking into whether Stone, an informal adviser to Trump during the 2016 campaign, was in communication with WikiLeaks before the website publicized stolen emails from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. U.S. intelligence agencies have said the emails were stolen by Russian hackers.

President Trump at the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires. (Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

Stone, a longtime Trump associate, has repeatedly denied knowing in advance about the Clinton email releases, but messages between Stone and right-wing author Jerome Corsi have raised questions about Stone’s denials.

George Conway, a lawyer, a frequent Trump critic and the husband of Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway, responded to the president’s tweet about Stone with a not-so-cryptic reference to the statutes that define obstruction of justice and witness tampering.

“Whoever … corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice, shall be (guilty of an offense).”

George is right. This is genuinely looking like witness tampering. DOJ (at least with a nonfake AG) prosecutes cases like these all the time. The fact it’s done out in the open is no defense. Trump is genuinely melting down, and no good lawyer can represent him under these circs https://t.co/zqFUoQvWTf

Stone himself had an answer to the suggestion that Trump’s tweet may have violated witness tampering statutes.

“Those who said the president’s warm and complimentary tweet constitutes witness tampering should be reminded that I have never been contacted by any investigative body and therefore, by definition, this cannot be true,” Stone told the Daily Caller’s Saagar Enjeti.

Last week, Corsi refused Mueller’s offer for a plea deal over his role as a suspected intermediary between Stone and WikiLeaks, saying he was prepared to spend the “rest of my life” in prison rather than “sign a lie.”

Last year, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who was under investigation for his contacts with the Russian ambassador before the inauguration, told friends he had received a message from the president urging him to “stay strong.” Flynn later pleaded guilty to perjury and is cooperating with Mueller.

With Stone and Corsi facing possible legal jeopardy in Mueller’s probe, the president also took aim at another associate who has pleaded guilty and is helping the special counsel make his case: his longtime lawyer and self-described “fixer,” Michael Cohen:

“Michael Cohen asks judge for no Prison Time.” You mean he can do all of the TERRIBLE, unrelated to Trump, things having to do with fraud, big loans, Taxis, etc., and not serve a long prison term? He makes up stories to get a GREAT & ALREADY reduced deal for himself, and get…..